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CHANCE® Civil Construction manufactures the Instant Foundation® System to provide resistance to lateral loads and moment loads due to wind and other load conditions. The versatility and ease of construction of the Chance® Instant Foundation® System permits great flexibility in a number of applications. Typical uses for these products are foundations for equipment pads, foundation supports for signs, supports for light standards and decorative poles, and other eccentric load applications.

Instant Foundation Products
Instant Foundation® Products
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Product Benefits

The Instant Foundation® System offers the following benefits:

  • Fast installation.
  • No vibration.
  • Ease of installation in limited access areas.
  • Minimum disturbance to site.
  • No excavation required.
  • All steel foundation.
  • Immediate structure installation.
  • Ready for immediate wiring.
  • All weather installation.
  • On-site load test capability.

This section describes the Chance® Instant Foundation® System products for overturning moment loads and lateral support that are typically maintained in stock to provide quick delivery to the project site. The Instant Foundation® System Product Selection table and Instant Foundation® Products diagram, illustrate just a few of the Instant Foundation® products that are available in each of the product series. Our manufacturing facility is capable of rapidly fabricating products to suit the application.

Instant Foundation® System Product Selection
Instant foundation product selection

Recommended Factors of Safety for Design

The variability of soil conditions that may exist at a project site, plus the varied nature of loading on structures and how these loads are transferred through foundation elements, requires the consulting engineer and/or dealer/installing contractor to use an appropriate Factor of Safety (FS) in design for use with the Chance® Instant Foundation® System. Generally this Factor of Safety is a minimum of 2:1 on all permanent loading conditions and a minimum of 1.5:1 for any temporary load situation. National and local building code regulations may require more stringent Factors of Safety on certain projects.

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